Books Received
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The books listed below were recently received by the editors. A listing here does not preclude a review in a future issue.
Advanced Democracies
The American Political Landscape. By Byron E. Shafer and Richard H. Spady. Harvard University Press, 2014. 342 pp.
Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930–1970. By Anne M. Kornhauser. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 319 pp.
Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Obama, 3rd ed. By Seyom Brown. Columbia University Press, 2015. 844 pp.
Polarized Politics: The Impact of Divisiveness in the U.S. Political System. Edited by William Crotty. Lynne Rienner, 2015. 409 pp.
Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945–1952. By Adam R. Seipp. Indiana University Press, 2013. 285 pp.
U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century: Making Americans, Remaking America. By Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo O. de la Garza. Westview, 254 pp.
The View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals. By Jennifer Barnes Bowie, Donald R. Songer, and John Szmer. University of Virginia Press, 2014. 284 pp.
Africa
Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria. By A. Carl LeVan. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 282 pp.
Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health. Edited by P. Wenzel Geissler. Duke University Press, 2015. 369 pp.
Party Systems and Democracy in Africa. Edited by Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 191 pp.
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. By Christopher J. Lee. Duke University Press, 2014. 346 pp.
Asia
Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model. By Jessica C. Teets. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 239 pp. [End Page 174]
The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan. By Tianjian Shi. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 299 pp.
Defect or Defend: Military Responses to Popular Protests in Authoritarian Asia. By Terence Lee. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 252 pp.
Japan’s Multilayered Democracy. Edited by Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Nissim Otmazgin, and Alon Levkowitz. Lexington, 2015. 262 pp.
Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past. Edited by Allen Hicken and Erik Martinez Kuhonta. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 355 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Creating Kosovo: International Oversight and the Making of Ethical Institutions. By Elton Skendaj. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cornell University Press, 2014. 217 pp.
The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism. Edited by Anders Åslund and Simeon Djankov. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2014. 320 pp.
Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? By Karen Dawisha. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. 445 pp.
Ukraine Incognita: Top 25. Edited by Larysa Ishyna. Private JSC Ukrainian Press Group, 2014. 383 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico’s Evolving Democracy: A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections. Edited by Jorge I. Domínguez et al. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 282 pp.
Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America: Business Power and Tax Politics. By Tasha Fairfield. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 345 pp.
Middle East
The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy. By Zaid Al-Ali. Yale University Press, 2014. 295 pp.
Comparative, Theoretical, General
The Art of Peacemaking: Political Essays by István Bibó. By István Bibó. Yale University Press, 2015. 473 pp.
Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon. Edited by Peter F. Cannovò and Joseph H. Lane Jr. MIT Press, 2014. 304 pp. [End Page 175]
Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script. Edited by Tanja A. Börzel and Vera Van Hüllen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 298 pp.
Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions. Edited by Mark P. Lagon and Anthony Clark Arend. Georgetown University Press, 2014. 366 pp.
Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. By Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 229 pp.
Leveraging: A Political, Economic and Societal Framework. Edited by David M. Anderson. Springer, 2014. 197 pp.
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